Kiss the Dead (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #22)

by Laurell K. Hamilton

I knew without doubt that if any more of the vampires tried to attack us I'd kill them, too, regardless of apparent age, race, sex, or religious affiliations. I was an equal-opportunity executioner; I killed everybody.

My name is Anita Blake and I am a vampire hunter and necromancer, as well as a US Marshal. So when a fifteen-year-old girl is abducted by vampires, it's up to me to find her.

And when I do, I'm faced with something I've never seen before: a terrifyingly ordinary group of people - kids, grandparents, soccer moms - all recently turned and willing to die to avoid serving their vampire master. And where there's one martyr, I know there will be more...

But even vampires have monsters that they're afraid of. And I'm one of them...

• ISBN10: 075538900X
• ISBN13: 9780755389001
• Publish Date: 8 November 2012 (first published 1 June 2012)
• Publish Status: Active
• Out of Print: 16 February 2024
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
• Imprint: Headline Book Publishing
• Format: Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
• Pages: 416
• Language: English

Reviews

[tellemonstar]

A lot less sex in this one, which personally is a relief. More Marshal Anita Blake action than we've seen in a long time, and more philosophical Anita as well. I think I enjoyed this more than the last one, because we saw more of our favourite boys again.

[Melanie]

I really enjoyed this story, but then I like most of the Anita stories. I know that many people don't like them recently, and that's fine. I do. I also understand many of the complaints that people say about the series, but most of those things really weren't around in this book. There is one extremely sex scene with Nicky that is a little too long for me (I don't remember how many chapters there was to this scene, though I guess they had sex twice). That was really the only thing that bothered me. My normal gripe is the talking too much therapy speak, especially in a sex scene. I mean really, who wants to have therapy while their having sex.